“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein. This is precisely the problem of today. The fault line starts at this juncture where the questions and curiosity meet up the stream lined formal education. When we look at the history of higher education in India, especially during the colonization period and immediately after the Independence, there are some policy decisions which have influenced and shaped today’s structure of higher education to a great extent.

This book openly puts forward so many existing and anticipated problems and challenges in the area of Higher education in current India. This book is a compilation of selected articles/papers from various areas of higher education. The editors have carefully selected chapters/articles from relatively unexplored or lesser explored and newly emerging areas of study. It could be used as a ready reckoner for the comprehensive understanding of current education scenario in India with specific reference to the challenges in higher education. The areas covered in this book are not limited to the classroom teaching learning but also incorporates the current/contemporary/ latest/updated policy changes and their implications on the system of higher learning. It will help the learners, teachers, managements, government, policy makers, philanthropists, industry, administration, bureaucracy and the related strata of the society to understand the challenges involved in the current system and to find some mutually benefiting sustainable solutions.

Preeti Oza, Faculty, St. Andrew’s College, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.Gurudutta P. Japee, Head of the Department, Department of Advanced Business Studies, School of Commerce, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad and RUSA State Nodal Officer, Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, Department of Education, Government of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Part I: Academic Fractures: Causes and Effects

1. Fault Line in the Indian Higher Education System: An IntroductionPreeti Oza

18. Acceptance of Parents as StakeholdersMukarram Khan
19. Crisis of Communication Among All Stakeholders of Higher EducationKomal Shah
20. The Concept and the Content of Higher EducationSujata Wadhwa, Manish Padia and Audrey Barlow